{"product_id":"dona-marias-story-life-history-memory-and-political-identity","title":"Doña María's Story: Life History, Memory, and Political Identity","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eDoña María's Story: Life History, Memory, and Political Identity\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eDaniel James\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780822324928\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eDuke University Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2001\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e336\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eIn this remarkable book historian Daniel James presents the gripping, poignant life-story of Doña María Roldán, a woman who lived and worked for six decades in the meatpacking community of Berisso, Argentina. A union activist and fervent supporter of Juan and Eva Perón, Doña María's evocative testimony prompts James to analyze the promise and problematic nature of using oral sources for historical research. The book thus becomes both fascinating narrative and methodological inquiry.\u003cbr\u003e\tDoña María's testimony is grounded in both the local context (based on the author's thirteen years of historical and ethnographic research in Berisso) and a broader national narrative. In this way, it differs from the dominant genre of women's testimonial literature, and much recent ethnographic work in Latin America, which have often neglected historical and communal contextualization in order to celebrate individual agency and self-construction. James examines in particular the ways that gender influences Doña María's representation of her story. He is careful to acknowledge that oral history challenges the historian to sort through complicated sets of motivations and desires--the historian's own wish to uncover \"the truth\" of an informant's life and the interviewee's hope to make sense of her or his past and encode it with myths of the self. This work is thus James's effort to present his research and his relationship with Doña María with both theoretical sophistication and recognition of their mutual affection.\u003cbr\u003e\tWhile written by a historian, \u003ci\u003eDoña María's Story \u003c\/i\u003ealso engages with concerns drawn from such disciplines as anthropology, cultural studies, and literary criticism. It will be especially appreciated by those involved in oral, Latin American, and working-class history.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Doña María's Story: Life History, Memory, and Political Identity | Daniel James | Paperback | 9780822324928 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks G 1789561","offer_id":67857785815192,"sku":"1789561","price":43.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81IWj4mWebL.jpg?v=1793497178","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/dona-marias-story-life-history-memory-and-political-identity","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}